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> -----Original Message----- > From: Edward Peschko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 9:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: decent fonts for rxvt in cygwin > > > hey, > > I've been searching for decent fonts in cygwin, and haven't > found a really good method > for doing so. > > On solaris, I do a xlsfonts, pipe it to a file, and write a > script to cycle through > the fonts at an obscenely high geometry value (ex: 500x500). > Because the windowing system prevents such a large screen, it > crops the windows as they are displaying. I then do a resize > on the window, and get a list of fonts with corresponding > sizes. > > I then look at the fonts with reasonable values, aiming for > two windows, 90x90 (which my monitor can reasonably support, > resolution-wise). So far, the best fit I've found on solaris is 6x9. > > On cygwin its a different story though. I saw xlsfonts, but > there doesn't seem to be > an equivalent to 'resize'. 'xwininfo' is available, but it > doesn't have an option to print the information about the > current window. > > So, right now, I'm scrolling through the 2000 or so fonts > returned by xlsfonts, manually looking through each one. > > Any better way to do this? > > Ed > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/